Deuteronomy 18:19

And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.

Whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.

Peter repeats it in a slightly altered form - "Him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you" (Acts 3:22). A similar command in the scene of the transfiguration, when, on the appearance of Christ in the world, Moses gave attestation to Him, was issued from the excellent glory, "Hear him" (Matthew 17:5).

The direful consequences of unbelief in Christ and disregard of His mission the Jewish people have been experiencing during 1,800 years. The doom denounced by Moses against those who should refuse to hearken to this Prophet was most severely executed on that wicked generation which crucified our Saviour. What they themselves said - "His blood be on us, and on our children" - was verified in the most awful manner.

The record which Josephus has given of the siege of Jerusalem affords abundant evidence that God required of that guilty race the blood of His Son, which had been so cruelly and ignominiously shed by them. "I will require it of him," Peter expresses it, "He shall be destroyed from among the people" (Acts 3:23: cf. Romans 11:20; 1 Thessalonians 2:15).